The Bondhus area in Maruanger has been a magnet for tourists ever since the stream of tourists to Norway's west coast began in the middle of the 1800s. The magnificent landscape with the "ice trail" up to Bondhusvatnet Lake, the ice falls from Bondhusbreen glacier and Keisarstigen trail up to Folgefonna are still popular tourist attractions.

Ølve has a special soil type. Here one finds an extra hard clay soil. This is especially noticed by those who work with excavating
for building foundations and the like. Often it is necessary to use especially big digging machines and sometimes even dynamite in order to break up the
compact masses. The reason for this is the growth of the glaciers toward the end of the Ice Age: The clay, that was first deposited in front of the glacier,
came under great pressure when the glacier later grew and slid out over the clay.